{"id":352915,"date":"2021-05-17T09:58:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T08:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=352915"},"modified":"2021-05-17T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:15:50","slug":"newborn-baby-burnt-at-refuse-dump-in-jigawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=352915","title":{"rendered":"Newborn baby burnt at refuse dump in Jigawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A newborn baby has been found dumped and burnt at a refuse dump in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa State.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of the area told DAILY POST that some boys discovered the remains of the baby neatly packed in a sack while scavenging at the dump at Takur Site Quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), SC Adamu Shehu, confirmed the discovery to DAILY POST.<\/p>\n<p>He said the dead baby was found on Sunday 16th May, 2021, around 1:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally received a phone call from my plumber who lives in Tukur Site, Dutse, that what looks like a dead and abandoned baby neatly packaged in a sack was discovered by a group of boys while scavenging at a waste disposal site,\u201d Adamu said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that immediately after the call, the NSCDC response team was mobilised to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>He said on arrival, it was discovered that part of the baby\u2019s body was already consumed by fire at the dump site.<\/p>\n<p>The NSCDC spokesman said so far nobody has been arrested in connection with the crime.<\/p>\n<p>NSCDC State Commandant, Alhaji Garba Muhammad, condemned the dastardly act and ordered for a thorough investigation to fish out the culprit(s).<\/p>\n<p>The baby\u2019s corpse was handed over to the Ward Head of the area, Malam Bashir Tukur Jinjiri for burial after due consultations.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newborn baby has been found dumped and burnt at a refuse dump in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa State. A resident of the area told DAILY POST that some boys discovered the remains of the baby neatly packed in a sack while scavenging at the dump at Takur Site Quarters. Spokesman of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,236],"class_list":["post-352915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-jigawa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/352916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}